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asiTTlHW'fr |K "'i jniffiT/ ■Wfe■VERY FRIDAYNOTICE TO CREDITORS OFTHE ESTATE OF R. C.BENTON, DECEASED.Notice Is hereby given that orig-inal letters of administration uponthe estate of R. C. Benton, deceas-ed, were granted to me, the un-dersigned, on the 22nd day ofMarch, 1937, by the county courtof Armstrong County. All personshaving claims against said estateare hereby required to present thesame to me within the time pre-scribed by law. My residence andpast office address are Claude,Armstrong County, Texas. 33-cVIVIA BENTON KIOHT,Administratrix of the Estateof R. C. Benton, deceased."Willie we were yet sinners,Christ died for us."—Rom. 6:8"Repent ye: for the Klndgom ofHeaven Is at Hand."—Matt. 3:2.HOLLYWOOD ... Emily Lane and.Janice Jarratt of the movies go to'church wearing floral crownsadapted from the Dalmatian peas-Ant costumes. A straw braid keepsthe crown on and holds the hairin place.The recent declssion of our Su-preme Court, up-holding the FarmDebt Moratorium, in direct op-position to a former declssion,proves that even the supreme courtcan be moved to RIGHT INTER-PRETATIONS OF OUR CONSTI-TUTION, when public sentement isaroused to fever heat. Our people,by a land-slide, gave Congress andour President certain mandates forthem to follow regarding laws wemust have to side-tract a PANIC,or DEPRESSION, caused WHOLLYBY TAKING MONEY OUT OFCIRCULATION. At first thesemandates of the people were over-ruled by the Supreme Court, butthey are finally "coming to theirclabbor," and the people are get-ting WHAT THEY DEMAND. For-merly many Court Decisions werein the Interest of SPECIAL IN-TEREST, and that is what ihecommon people are opposed to—interpretations of the Constitutionin the interest of the BIG BOYS.Sir.ce they have righted themselveson this Farm Moratorium Law,taey will no doubt get right bypronouncing ail GOOD LAWS Con-stitutional; such as The Frazier-Lemke Farm Relief Bill; The Gov-ernment Ownership and Manage-ment of The Twelve Federal Re-serve Banks; and many otherGOOD LAWS demanded by amajority of the voting populationof The United States.The Lynn County News editortells you that President Rooseveltshould read Senator Tom Con-nelly's speech made before theTexas Legislature a short timeback. This speech, assulting thePresident of The United States,because he demanded that thecongress anil president run thiscountry and not FIVE SUPREMEJUDGES, meant the undoing ofSenator Connolly. For many of hiswarmest friends have said: "Iworked for and voted for Mr. Con-nally last election, but we mustdefeat him when he announces foroffice again." However, SenatorConnally has weakened a greatdeal since making this speech andmay right-about face, which, if hedoes and sides in with the Presi-dent, r.gainst ONLY FIVE MENKILLING ail national laws, he-may regain his former friends. Wehave no use for Congress, neithershould we be out the millions ofdollars spent to hire Congress tomake laws for the people whenONLY FIVE MEN can undo allthat Congress does. TOE PEOPLEgave a mandate to our Presidentwhen they gave him every statein the UNION EXCEPT TWO,and he has tried hard to followTHE PEOPLE'S MANDATE, butthe Supreme Court—in the face ofthat mandate—says NO, the Presi-dent and Congress cannot do what130 million people ASK THEM TODO. Talk about Dictators; canMusollnni, Hitler or Stalen domore to thwart the will of thepeople than these five men can do?The first ambassador sent toEngland by the U. S. A. was JohnAdams whose duties began onJune 1, 1185, with ills Introductionto King George III.It is reported that President Ro-osevelt will soon call a conferenceof European powers to discuss theirtroubles and work out a programfor permanent peace We hope hewill do nothing of the kind. Con-ditions in the Old World are suchthat no outsider Is likely to get aproper plant on them; their feudsand hatreds are such that no out-sider should meddle with them, andall we may expect is to be askedto advance them money.—Chief-Tribune.TQ Industrial MM Wrtrim mny^hig ritttf BOM? bOTOW-from others, the Fatten! Oor-erament has pumped Mtttoos intocirculation. Now, It cant atop un-less it has (acta to Justify thestoppage." In the first place theGovernment ahould not have U>borrow a single dollar, from any-one, but should "coin money a•egulate the value thereof' Just aOur Constitution SAYS IT SHALL'hercfore should not be out oculenny for pumping money Int.:irculation. In the Second Placehe Government should "pump lnt<circulation" TOREK OR FOOT.riMES AS MUCH MONEY as W.now have, which would offset theBillions of dollars now being hoard•d in Central Banks and kept outif circulation, thus doing this naion no good whatever. The Gov;rnmcnt should own and operatehe Central Banks and use its con-cessional RIGHT TO COIN MON-EY AND REGULATE THEVALUE THEREOF; and "pumpthis money into circulation" untilPROSPERITY HAS RETURNED.The Depression was caused singlyand wholly by THE SCARCITYOF MONEY IN CIRCULATIONWe had natural resources, finecrops and everything else in thisworld but money to move thesecrops, also money to start ourmills, mines and factories to runnlng. There was just one and onlyone cause for the depression—NOT ENOUGH MONEY IN CIR-CULATION. One hundred dollarsCASH will be given to any manwoman or child who will refutethe above argument. Are you on?In the fourth Kansas City votefraud trial, one of the defendantscomplained he became terribly tiredlast Election day because the Republicans "marked their ballots sohard you could scaracely rub themout."An old fashioned spelling matchadded excitement to the traditionalcelebration of April Fool's Day atAbilene Christian college, follow-ing a chapel speech which stirreda campus literary club to defendmodern spelling.Governor James V. Allred hasproclaimed May 1 as the eleventhannual Child Health Day in Texas,in conjunction with a national ob>servance of the day under proclamatlon Issued by the Presidentof the United States. The StateDepartment of Health is sponsor-ing May Day In Texas.The value of a good local news-paper Is much more than manypeople seem to think. And one ofthe best ways to make and keepit good Is to patronize It, pay forIt, and furnish It every week withadvertising, news and Items, suchas the public wants to knowBring 'em on and "faith we'll print'em". The press is a power inhelping to carry on the business ofour country—Rochester Reporter.Mayor LaGuardta did this coun-try a real service by paying hiscompliments to Hitler, the littleNapoleon cf Germany. He got theGermans boiling mad, and whenone is mad the truth comes out.They are telling us now what theyre?lly think about us, which theywould diplomatically never havedone. But It Is good to have thetruth told about one's self oncein a while. The truth will also dothe brown shirts some good, Iftheir vision is not obliterated byseeing red.It is estimated that there aremore than 1,500,000 federal em-ployes who are exempt from stateincome taxes, and nearly 5,000,000employes of states, counties, andmunicipalities who are not re-quired to pay federal income taxesAs salaries go, public employes arewell paid and as a rule their workis light. Why should they escapetaxation? With the governmentand most states going Into the reddeeper and deeper every day whyshould not those favored partisanspay their share of the enormousbill?ATTENTION FARMERSBaby Chicks for Your No. 1 Hens—ACT AT ONCE—We will trade 2 (two) babychicks for every pound of No.1 hens brought to us. This of-fer good for a limited timeonly. Bring any number ofhens.Build New Blood into yourflocks and get rid of non-pro-ducers. 50 lbs. of No. 1 hensgets you 100 Baby Chicks.Bring your hens and get yourchicks now or later.ADKISS0N HATCHERY413 W. 4th St. Phone 5170Amarillo, TexasWill H. Hays, Motion PictureManager, says: "Listing Romeo andJuliet; Mr. Deeds Ooes to Town;Winterset; Dodsworth; The GoodEarth; San Francisco; Lost Hori-zon; Anthony Adverse; Lloyd ofLondon; Black Legion; The GreenPastures; Maid of Salem; TheStory of Louis Pasteur; The GreatZiegfeld; Prisoner of Shark Island;Camille; The Plainsman; My Man,Godfrey; On The Avenue; ThePlough and the Stars; The Gen-eral Died at Dawn; Modern Times;Beloved Enemy; Three SmartGirls; Little Lord Fauntleroy, andothers, as examples of outstandingartistic and dramatic achievementduring the past season, Mr. Hayspointed out that some screen dramatlzatlons of the current seasonhad been acclaimed greater thanthe successful stage plays whichthey reproduced. Many of the cur-rent films had proved not onlysuccessful entertainment but vitalsocial documents ao well."It 13 a rather dramatic statementto say that more iciiool childrenare killed in Texas er-ch year byautomobiles than were killed Inthe New London explosion. Butwhen Texas authorities wen re-minded of this recently, there waslittle that could be said It un-doubtedly ia a fact. Yet -the mi tireto Mttaa by the•xoloalon.MfialktuNPoaltlve ac-by the lggtaRture was underway almoet .baton the debris hadbeen cleared away. From through-out the etate arose a demand thatsuch tragedies be made as nearlyImpoaqlble at is within the realmof human ability. We all endorsethe demand. Yet we do little ornothing about the automobiledeaths. We trJte them as a matter•>f oourse as a necessary sacrificewe must make in the name ofirogress. Undoubtedly wc can dolomcthing to eliminate school ex-plosions. By the same token wason do much to curtail the auto-mobile casualties. Both will requirein active public sentiment, however"Whom the gods would destory.hey first make mad." Listening topoor old Carter Glass, senior sena-tor from Virginia, In his vltrollrdiatribe against President Roose-velt and his supreme court planwould lead one to believe he wasIn danger of destruction. His speechon last Tuesday night was as viciousfor the identical purpoae—to gelwhat money each must give In ex-change for the necessities of lifeand comforts of civilisation. A per-son who has no money cannot"buy" the food, clothing, and shel-ter necessary to sustain life. Sucha person Is really an outcast fromcivilization and must either beg.borrow, or steal the necessities oflife. Money, then, IS the passportto civilisation—It is actually themost Important material factor Inthe lives of civilized human beings.Even Christ used money—Judascarried the money bag and was jtreasurer for Christ and the dis-ciples (St. Mark 6:37,—St. Jjhn0:5). In fact, St. John implies thata shortage In his accounts causedJudas to betray Christ (St. John12:6). Are not Christian ministersrather Inconsistent when theypreach that money Is the root ofall evil—and then pass the collec-tion plate to get some of thatevil money? The "truth" is thatmoney is not the root of all evil—but vicious control and manipulaand unwarranted as has ever come; tion of our nation's supply of Itover the air. The trouble with old as the root of all evil which existsCarter Is that he hasn't "cut muchice" In the present administrationand he resents being shoved intothe background. Long past the al-lotted three score years and ten,Mr. Glass does not realize thatthings have changed since he en-tered politics many years ago. Mr.Roosevelt need have no fear forthe passage of his court bill if hecan induce the Virginia senator tomake one or two more such speech-es. Having lived at the public pie-counter for a large part of hisnearly four Bcore years It Is im-possible for the senator to haveany conception of the needs ofthe man placed In a less fortunateplane of life—Garland News.The difference between wildbeasts and savage humans Is theuse of fire. The difference betweensavage humans and civilized man-kind is the use of money-the me-dium of exchange. Civilizationwould be Impossible If we did nothave a medium by which goodsand services could be exchangedquickly and fairly between buyersand sellers. Every day men laborIn factories; women and girls workbehind store counters; firemen andpolicemen stand ready to protectlife r.nd property; soldiers preparethemselves to defend the nation;farmers till their farms and tendtheir stock; doctors make tlielrvisits; destitute women and girlsdrift Into vice; and criminals planand execute robberies—and all arebusy with the tasks each performsin this Christian Democracy todayMoney Is actually the root of allgood—civilization—which we enjoytoday. Without some form of mon-ey there would be no form ofcivilization. Have Christian min-isters also been used as pawns inthe conspiracy to blind Christian ^people as to the truth about mon- jey? Christians are willing to workand earn what money they musthave in order to live. This makesthem slaves to whoever has thepower to control and manipulateour nation's supply of medium ofexchange—money and credit. Who-ever controls a nation's supply ofmoney and credit controls all com-merce and industry In that nation—and dictate* Just how well orhow poorly the people of thatnation shall live.SEATTLE. Wash. . . . Twins iu the bovine world are almost as rare asquadruplets or quintuplet human bablea. "Lady." a Holsteln-Ouernaeycow, guve birth to twins here a week ago. They have been named"Jack and Jill."JINGLINGS OF JOHNNIEAT a time likeTHIS what we all need IsTIME to get alongI DON'T have money but IKNOW OF lots ofA THING and I'll tryTO TELL U to not onlyYOU as it is no secretBUT then I know that youTO HAVE your own worries andYOUR troubles are many butCLOTHES still need to beCLEANED, so mv Phone Is 16JOHNNIE THE TAILORPhone 16■MOWSMAILThe ioooPARTANINCH?House That Folds Into a TraileriiiigmiS>Wa i: * >'■ SetaS• It's much too small forany of us to measure, butit's a well-known manu-facturing limit for the menwho make Genuine IHCRepairs. This is one of thereasons why we can truth-fully say to all McCormick-Deering machine owners:you bring your disabledmachine back to full new-machine efficiency whenyou replace broken orworn parts with GenuineIHC Repairs. Be sure tocall on us when your ma-chines need attention^—we are here to serve you.££ •«.• ... -•.. y*L09 ANGELES . . . This Stout Mobilu Home is a complete three roomhouse that can bo folded up Into a trailer. It was designed and Inventedby William B. Stout of aeronautics fame and offers a radical departurehi home designing.Farmers Grain & Implement Co.Phone 37-A Claude, Texas1 PALACE BARBER SHOP15 YEARS SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSYour daily appearance adds to yoursuccess. Let us help you keep thatAppearanceSHOWER * TUB BATH 25c LAUNDRY AGBNCIW. A. McMnrry, Propr."Build Boys Town" Contest Closes OnlTuesday; Still Time Left to EnterJudges Prepare to Sift Thousands of Slogans;Winners of Big Cash Prizes tobe Announced SoonT"* HERE'S still time to enter the big Build Boys Town slogan con-*■ test—but you've got to hurry. Remember your slogan must reachthe office of this newspaper no later than midnight, April 13.can mail or bring it in.YouThat's the way poor, helplessboys Lome to Boys Town. Some-body has to take care of them.There they are fed and clothed,educated, kept until they are ableand ready to make their own wayin the world.And they do make thel."way in the world. 4,446 haveRemember, aomebody isgoing to get $1,040 for writ-ing * simple, ten-word slo-gan on "Beys Town and WhatIt Meaaa to America As aCheck en Crime." And therearc Iota of other big cashprises, too—|2,1M la all.HELPING WORTHY CAUSEBy entering the contest you arehelping as worthy a cause as thereis in this country today—helpingHomeless Boys. Because for everynew one-year subscription, t—o-year renewal or two-year past duesubscription paid up, this news-paper puts 25 Cents in the BuildBoys Town Fund to be used forthe new dormitory building. Now,you know, an average of five hun-dred homeless boys have to be re-fused admission to Boys Towneach year because of lack of room.Race, color or creed mean abso-lutely nothing at Boys Town. Justas long as It'a a Homeless Boy inneed of help. A number of boyshave come to Boys Town withonly taga on their worn coats. In-structing kindly railroad conduc-tors where to ship them. Theyhave come trasn eftfy state of theunion \vOne day last summer Ajlttle tadr^tttlADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD, AMERICA'S ACEAIRMAN, SPENDS BIRTHDAY AT BOYS TOWNin r.i^s walked into Boys Town."Tht re's Father Flanagan?" heaskcJ f.'emulously.Taken to Father Flanagan, hesaid: "Here I am. Father. I ain'tgot no home. My mother'a deadand my father drinks all the time.The man who runs the cigar storein our town told me about BoysTown and you. I ain't got no placeelse to go. I bummed a ride on atruck here."done that In the past nineteenyears. All of these boys todayare successful, self-sustainingeltlsena. Net a single one lala a Jail or penitentiary.ONE BIO "PUSH"This newspaper knows the peo-ple of America aren't going to for-get the Homeless Boy. It is proudof the way its readers in this com-munity have co-operated ao far.However, it would like to see onefinal pu^h to put the big BuildBoys Town drive away over thetop.If you haven't already enteredthe big slogan contest, do it to-day. Somebody's going to win that$1,000 Just for writing a ten-wordslogan. With the story behindBoys Town to write the sloganaround, it's the easiest thing inthe world. You know what Crimecosts this country every year. Juststop and think what Boys Town isdoing to prevent Crime. Becauseyou know it's homeless and neg-lected boys today that become thehardened criminals tomorrow.Write your slogan, enclose onenew one-year subcription, two-year renewal or two-year past duesubscription paid-up, at the reg-ular rate and you may be the onewho will have that $1,000 in yourpocket when the contest Is r er.or one of those other big cashprizes.Remember fer every sloganentered In the contest, thisnewspaper pats 25 CentsIn the Build Boys Town fand.With the new dormitorybuilding, Beys Town won'thave to refaae admits!en tothose five hundred boy everyyear aa it most now, becauseOf lack of room.DO YOUR PARTDo your part to check Crime inAmerica - and you may have$1,000 in cash In your hand whenthe contest is over.thr* of this paper torthe Build Boy* Town rules.■URRY! CMIv .\\